Frank Richter, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Beata Trawinski, W. Detmar Meurers
Published in: Gerhard Jäager, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn and Shuly Wintner (Eds.): Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2002, July 2002, pp. 137-148
Our paper, presented at FG'02 in Trento, Italy, discusses a graphical software tool called Morph Moulder (MoMo) for teaching the formal foundations of a language with a denotation in a domain of relational typed feature structures as used in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. With MoMo, students learn the properties of totally well-typed, sort resolved relational feature structures, the use of formal languages to describe typed feature structures and the notions of constraint satisfaction and models of grammars written in a formal language. MoMo was realized and conceived within the context of a set of courses in the format of web-based training, that focuses on the concept of typed feature structures in a curriculum in grammar formalisms and parsing. The formal language of MoMo amends the constraint language of TRALE (an implementation platform for HPSG grammars based on ALE) to accommodate the expressive power of HPSG.
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Bibtex entry:
@inproceedings{Richter:et:al:fg02,
author = {Frank Richter and Ekaterina Ovchinnikova and
Beata Trawi\'nski and W. Detmar Meurers},
title = {Interactive Graphical Software for Teaching
the Formal Foundations of Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2002},
editor = {Gerhard J\"ager and Paola Monachesi and
Gerald Penn and Shuly Wintner},
pages = {137--148},
year = {2002},
url = {http://purl.org/dm/papers/rotm-fg02.html}
}